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Creature and Creation in ‘Frankenstein’ and 19th Century Horror
‘Frankenstein’, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ and ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’. True terror can only lie in classic 19th century horror.
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5 Male Characters Who Stick
If literary characters were real people, I would love to sit down for a chat with these 5 male characters.
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Woolf and Shakespeare in Cambridge
Second year in a row in Cambridge reading Virginia Woolf and seeing an open-air performance at the Cambridge Shakespeare Festival
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5 Female Characters Who Stick
I could imagine sitting down for a chat with any or all of these literary female characters.
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Women Buying Flowers in the 1920s
Why do women buy flowers in fiction? Let’s ask Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Townsend Warner. They have different answers to give us.
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Katherine Mansfield – Something Hidden, Something Dark
How the dark and violent details of Katherine Mansfield’s short stories are hiding sparks of life.
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How Literary Art Can Save Us
In ‘What is Art’ Tolstoy argues that real art insidiously carves a path into our souls and makes us better human beings.
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Stories of Tea – Comfort, Memory, Custom
I sure love my cup of tea. Maybe you do too. While enjoying your hot Darjeeling, Sencha or Oolong, have you ever thought about the…
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4 Killer First Sentences in 20th Century Literature
Katherine Mansfield, Daphne du Maurier, Shirley Jackson and Mavis Gallant write some of the most enticing and exciting (read killer) first sentences in 20th century…
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I love thinking about how a certain topic is seen through the lens of different authors. This is an overview of all the blog posts I wrote on a specific topic spanning several books.
